Years: 1852 1853 1854 - 1855 - 1856 1857 1858

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s - 1850s - 1860s 1870s 1880s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1855 in art 1855 in literature 1855 in music 1855 in rail transport 1855 in science 1855 in sports List of state leaders in 1855 List of religious leaders in 1855

Events

• January 23 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
• George Hamilton-Gordon is forced to resign as Prime Minister of Britain because of bad management of the campaigns in the Crimean War and the general unpopularity of that war.
• The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean by rail as the railroad's route across Panama is completed.
• The region of Wairarapa, New Zealand was hit by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand, which reached Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale. There were five deaths.

Births

• January 5 - King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932)
• January 21 - John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926)
• January 28 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898)
• March 13 - Percival Lowell, astronomer († 1916)
• March 24 - Andrew Mellon, financier († 1937)
• April 27 - Caroline Rémy, French feminist (d. 1929)
• May 1 - Marie Corelli, novelist
• July 30 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist
• November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist († 1913)

Deaths

• February 6 - Josef Munzinger, member of the Swiss Federal Council (*1791)
• February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist
• March 29 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (*1799)
• March 31 - Charlotte Brontë, author
• May 23 - Charles Robert Malden explorer
• June 28 - Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan, commander of British forces in the Crimean War
• August 7 - Mariano Arista, President of Mexico
• November 11 - Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher
• November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poets and author.

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